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02-07-2011, 09:06 PM | #6242 |
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02-07-2011, 10:02 PM | #6243 |
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02-07-2011, 10:54 PM | #6244 |
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Finally going to see Das Boot. Listened to the soundtrack and it blew me away.
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02-08-2011, 06:58 AM | #6245 | |
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He posted about two types of movies, ones he's seen and ones he hasn't, then listed 4 movies without reference to which type they were. YES, if you go back and map the entire strand of the conversation AND assume his accounting principles are up to snuff, you can make a relatively safe assumption about which type they are. But the sentence as structured is ambiguous. Humor is replete with examples of the overall meaning being relatively clear, but a certain turn of phrase possessing enough ambiguity to introduce confusion, even if just fleeting. That's all this was. When I read it, my thought was; 'wait! what? oh . . . ' taking place in less than a second. pat seems to have had a similar reaction [without the 'oh. . . '] and chose to expend a little energy to heckle the poster about it. pat's continued confusion suggests he didn't expend sufficient effort to deconstruct the post after initial confusion, but the initial confusion is reasonable.
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But I'm the pedant here, I guess, while you can twist and mold KevB's post to fit a narrow reading of it. |
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02-08-2011, 07:32 AM | #6247 | |
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Maybe I just read more unclear student writing than you or Pat. KevB could have stated things more clearly, but I long for his clarity out of some students. |
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BTW, you didn't assume anything about the ambiguity because you didn't recognize it as ambiguous, which is completely understandable since you knew exactly what you meant.
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02-08-2011, 10:34 AM | #6252 | |
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02-08-2011, 10:37 AM | #6253 |
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02-08-2011, 10:38 AM | #6254 |
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I loved the A Team. This is one remake that Hollywood got right, IMO. Sure, there were parts that I thought "okay, that would never happen in reality", but at least they weren't over the top cheesy like the original series. Although I loved the original series.
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I didn't know what to expect. I thoroughly enjoyed Kick Ass.
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